We're both baristas.. i just transferred to this store, and the other barista is a 2 month old green bean. I'm 20 (almost 21) and she's 19. When I met her, she was always telling me jokes and making me laugh she's taken me home on multiple occasions and has been so very nice to me. One day when she took me home, we hung out a bit and uh.. talked about things that were not so sfw.. ^^; and needless to say, our day off the next day was definitely the most fun i'd had in such a long time... we made it official a week ago- and now we work shifts together and i give her looks and wink at her and she does the same- she came in with bandages on her neck to hide hickeys that i had given her the night before- she claimed it was "road rash"- one of our shifts was like "hm, thats some pretty well placed road rash" 👀

Its just messy and im tryna keep it a secret

i have been with my boyfriend for 4 years and we are both baristas at the same store! personally i think we work super well together and can communicate very easily. my manager learned that we were dating kind of on her own because i wasn’t sure about the policy on dating, and she was perfectly fine with it because of how well we work together
but i can imagine newer relationships are hard to deal with, especially when you’re in that first little awkward stage of always wanting to talk to each other and flirting constantly. that can be distracting and does not help people on the floor at all
i agree that with a newer relationship

Related to this I want to share a short little story with my experience. I used to be friends with a group of my coworkers (I was friends with one who got me my job at Starbucks and then was brought into their friend group and all of them worked at this same store). I also work with my significant other. No one even knows we’re a couple until I say something and no one cares because we don’t act like we’re a couple or talk to each other that way. We act like we’re at work because we are. Now this group of “friends” didnt actually like me (big surprise) and when they found an opportunity they all turned on me and decided I was a bad person (unrelated to dating a different coworker). By this point, only 1 person in this friend group was still working at the store. They refused to talk to me or communicate anything with me, even though they were an SSV. If I said anything to them or made any comment about anything they were talking about they would snap at me and tell me I was wrong or rude, really whatever they could to try and make me feel bad. Even friend breakups can be so dramatic in the workplace.

This is honestly something the could both be fired for, and you should let them know. Two baristas at my store were recently fired for expressing "inappropriate affection" while at work.

Nah I'd never... im too shy anyway >< i also have common decency unlike some people 🙄